MapTap, a daily geography game, is my new Wordle

As Wordle celebrates its fifth anniversary, we have to be honest with ourselves: are we still having fun, thousands of Wordles later? Sometimes, we are — but other times, the daily word game has felt like a means to keep a streak alive. Instead, my friends and I have gotten hooked on a new game, MapTap , which is available both as an app and on the web. Every day, MapTap has five questions, each one presenting you with a city (or, occasionally, the site of a historic event or battle) to tap on the map. You get a score between 0 and 100 on each clue, depending on how close you are. Image Credits: MapTap (opens in a new window) Each question gets progressively more difficult, so the first clue might be a major world city like London, while the final clue might be an island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. On the later questions, your score gets multiplied by 2x or 3x, so you finish the five-question game with a score out of 1000. (Personally, I think any score over 900 is pretty good, but some sickos are gunning for that perfect score.) Like Wordle, you get a fun little text to copy and paste and send in your group chats. Here’s mine from today, for example: www.maptap.gg June 18 100🎯 90🎉 97🔥 85🌟 63🤨 Final score: 828 (No, I did not plan on writing this article when I did the MapTap today, but I am sharing my middling score to show you that it is okay to not know things. …